welcome to chem 1B

This course details the chemistry of elements and their compounds in periodic groupings, transition metal complexes, chemical equilibrium, chemical thermodynamics, kinetics, atomic and molecular structure, aqueous solutions, net ionic equations, oxidation - reduction equations, electrochemistry and nuclear processes. In the laboratory, qualitative analysis of common metallic and nonmetallic ions will be performed, as well as additional experiments on selected lecture topics. Course prerequisites: Chemistry 1A with a minimum grade of C

before you do anything else

The first order of business is to make sure that you have access to your ECC email address. I will be sending emails to the class that may be important so be sure you are set up and checking your ECC email!

MasteringChemistry

Instructions for how to set up your MasteringChemistry account are here.

The login page for MasteringChemistry is here.

syllabus, schedule & office hours

grades

class notes

contacting me

The best way to contact me is by email. I check each of the following regularly:

pdoucette@elcamino.edu

pdoucett@chem.ucla.edu

The calculator that I recommend if you don't have one already is the Sharp EL-506W scientific calculator. It's cheap (about $10.00) but has so many useful functions for the price (my favorite is the quadratic equation solver - helpful in 1B). It's available at the bookstore and Fry's Electronics.